11/28/22 WFS 2020: Session Seven: Nonviolence and Climate Justice with Daniel Hunter and Judy Winters

  


 

 

Session Seven: Nonviolence and Climate Justice

 

Music: Chris Hadfield,"Space Oddity," Link to Site


 Welcome and Introductions


 Essential Questions

• What is the climate justice movement?

• What non violent techniques and strategies are being used by the climate justice movement?
• What organizations are actively working for climate justice solutions?

 

Agenda Preview: 

 

 

Gathering: " A question that I have for the speakers is..."

 

 

Rick’s Rap: (homework, News of the day, community sharing)

 

 

Speakers: Daniel Hunter and Judy Winters      

                        

 Readings:

• 350.org Link to Site

• Earth Quaker Action Team, Link to site

• George Lakey, "How a small Quaker group forced PNC Bank to stop financing mountaintop removal," Waging Non Violence, March 4, 2015 Link to Site

• Daniel Hunter, "How to Build a Resilient Culture of Resistance in Hard Times, Waging Nonviolence Link to Site

Michael Nagler, "What Would Gandhi Say Today On The 150 Anniversary of His Birth? Metta Center for Nonviolence, 10/1/19 Link to Site

• Jessica Corbett, "Climate Scientists Urge More Civil Disobedience to Signal 'How Deep in the Sh*t We Are,"  Common Dreams, 8/30/22 Link to Site

• Andrew Marantz, "The Youth Movement Trying To revolutionize Climate Politics," New Yorker 2/28/22

Link to Site

• Bill McKibben, "How the Many Can  Overcome the Ruthless Few," The Nation, 11/30/16,
pp.9-36 link to site

Resources:

• Nick Engelfried,"How Young Climate Activists Built a Mass Movement, to be Reckoned With," Waging Nonviolence, 11/15/22Link to Site

Daniel Hunter, "Climate Resistance Handbook, " 350.org Link to Site

•  Chris Moore-Blackman, "How to Help My Daughter Face Climate Change With an Open Heart," Yes! Magazine, December 2017 Link to Site

• Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14 Link to article

•"Greta Thunberg: Time Magazine Person of the Year, 2019" Time Magazine, 12/2019, Link to article

"Extinction Rebellion: A Week of Protest in Three Minutes," Link to Video

 

 

"We do need hope - of course, we do. But then thing we need more than hope is action.   Once we start to act, hope is everywhere."
        Greta Thunberg

 

 

 

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